Friday 2024 Play-in Games Thread: Bulls at Heat, Kings at Pelicans

[Street Hunger]

Friday Play-In Games. Winners get the No. 8 seed in the playoffs.

7 p.m. ET Bulls at Heat, ESPN

9:30 p.m. ET Kings at Pelicans, TNT

[NBAGOAT]

i'll take heat even with no butler and kings with no zion

[fsvr54]

Pels can still win without Zion. CJ will play better

[Axe]

Sac should make it. Zion is starting to feel overrated and his team feels meh overall.

I usually root for the bulls to win as much as possible but without lonzo ball, they're a freaking joke. And they're gonna be even worse without caruso while drummond's recent low iq antics just exacerbates it even further.

[ImKobe]

Pels can still win without Zion. CJ will play better

Pels can win if they let BI do his thing. Baffling they went with CJ down the stretch in that Laker game when he always comes up short in big spots. I don't care how checked out Ingram was you put him out there he's gonna perform better.

[Manny98]

Put 1000 on the bulls tonight

[ArbitraryWater]

Put 1000 on the bulls tonight

Terrible at those odds. Hope youre trolling again.

[jayfan]

Crazy that NO is 5-0 against Sac this year. You don't often see that with teams on the same level.


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[FultzNationRISE]

Beam Team gets a huge lift when they play at home, which they arent this time. If Ingraham doesnt play like he's butthurt from the benching I think the Pelicans have a good chance of winning, even sans Zion. But neither result would be a huge surprise.

Chicago/Miami feels like a toss up to me.

[Real Men Wear Green]

Kings are easily the favorite. Ingram's own coach showed no faith in him and Williamson is out.

I'm going with the Bulls vs the Heat. Apparently Derozan's daughter told her dad to win and nothing is more important than a sappy narrative. Butler being gone may also be a factor. Lavine is also out but there are respected NBA analysts saying the team is better without him. That has got to piss him off.

[Axe]

So caruso will be playing. Good.

Initially thought he's out already.

[Wally450]

I think the Heat can still take this, even without Jimmy.

Bam is going to have to carry somewhat of an offensive load. They need 20/12 from him at least.

[Street Hunger]

Bulls: No Lonzo Ball or Zach LaVine

Heat: No Jimmy Butler or Terry Rozier

[Street Hunger]

Quick start by Alex Caruso

Bulls up 8-4

[Nowoco]

Why are there so many empty seats in Miami?